Wet finger
Posted: 16 November 2005 Filed under: Critical Context 1 CommentI’ve found a really good guide to how to circuit bend – http://www.circuitbenders.co.uk/tips.html. It looks as though the key is to wet your finger and then poke it around inside. If the noise changes then it means you’ve found a body contact and a connect point.
I think what I’ll do first once I’ve found a connect point is solder up an led first to make sure that there is some output that I can use and then connect it to a wiring board.
Wetting your finger and poking around is a good way to find pots for pitch bends, but for most of the bends that I’ve done I ended up having to take some aligator clips with a wire attached and clip it to various solder points on the ICs, and then probe the rest of the ICs points with the other end of the wire.
Good luck with the bending.